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No. 239,274. Patented March 22,1881.

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No. 239,274L Patented March 22,1881.

' UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

HENRY A. SOHADOWSKY, OF NEW YORK N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH REOKENDORFER, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 239,274, dated March 22, 1881.

Application filed February 21, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HENRY A. SOHADOW- SKY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the followin g is a specification; My invention relates particularly to boxes for holding lead-pencils, but in some respects is applicable to boxesgenerally. It is directed to obtaining acheap, convenient, and readily-applied substitute for the ordinary hookand eye fa-tening used to hold the two hinged parts of a pencil-box together, which substitute is applicable to light boxes generally; and it is also directed to improving the construction and appearance as well of the pencil-box itself.

The nature of my invention can best be explained and understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1', 2, 3, and 4 are perspective 'views of pencil-boxes ofvarious styles embodying my improvement-s. Fig. 5 is a view of the box represented in Fig. 1 closed, with parts of the box in section, in order to show the fastening device. Fig. 6 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, of that part of the box in which the fastening device is seated.

All of the boxes shown in the drawings contain the same fastening device, so that a description of one will answer for all.

The box shown in Figs; 1 and 5 is composed of two parts, A B, hinged at a, the upper part or top, when the box is closed, fitting snugly between the ends 12 of the lower part. In each end of the top, near its front, is seated the fastening device, which is shown more plainly in Fig. 6. It consists of a block or core of rubber, c, which fits tightly, and is held in a hole or socket, cl, in the top, the rubber not extending to the bottom of the hole, but leaving, as shown, a space, 6, in order to allow the pin f the requisite play. This pin is of metal, which is forced into or through the rubber until only its rounded head projects therefrom. The rubber is flush with the end of the top, while the head projects slightly beyond the same. In each end I), at the point opposite the rounded head of the pin when the box is closed, is a slight depression or recess, g, which is entered by the head. The rubber constitutes a spring, which allows the pins to recede when the top is pressed down between the ends I), and then forces them outwardly as soon as they come opposite to the recesses g. In this way I obtain a fastening which, when the box is closed, will hold the parts together tightly enough for all practical purposes, but which will offer no serious resistance to either the opening or the closing of the box. It is, moreover, extremely cheap, simple, and easy of application. It is, of course, manifest that the position of the parts of. the fastening. can be reversedthat is to say, the rubber and pin device can be put in the ends I) and the recesses g in contiguous faces'of the part A.

The-box shown in Fig. 1 is composed of two thin boards or wooden strips grooved on their contiguous faces, as shown, so that when closed together the half-round grooves in the one will meet the half-round grooves in the other, and thus inclose the pencils placed therein. grooves, of course, vary in size and section with the size and shape of the pencils they are to receive. The boxes shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are designed for cylindrical pencils; those in Figs. 3 and 4 for hexagonal pencils. The hinge a of the box in Fig. 1 is composed of a strip of some strong pliable material, which is glued to the two parts of the box, as shown. The hinges of the boxes shown in Figs. 3 and 4 are of a similar character.

The box in Fig. l is of simple form, and is designed principallyto illustrate the construction and arrangement of the fastening device. Those shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 have an additional feature which is applicable particularly to pencil-boxes. In one or both of the twoparts A B of each of these boxes, at the front, is an extra groove, h, which is to be filled by a rib or projection, z, of correspond. ing shape, fastened to the other part when the box is closed. The ribs or projections have the shape of the pencils for which the boxes are intended. They are, in fact, woodensticks or sections of sticks ofthe same external shape as the pencils. They serve tointerlook the box, so as to prevent the hinge from being strained in opening the box, and they also furnish a convenient means for applying the fastening device.

In Fig. 3 the stick i is glued in the front The i groove of the top A, and has in each end the fastening device, whichopcrates in connection with the recesses g in the sides b of the lower part, B, as hereinbefore described. In Fig. 4: the stick is divided into three sections, the two end sections being glued in the front groove of the lower part, B, while the middle section is glued in the front groove of top A. The fastening devices are in the ends of the middle section, as shown. This arrangement enables me to dispense with ends, such as b, the ends of the pencil-receiving grooves being closed, as shown, by short plugs j, having the same shape asthe pencils which the box is to receive. When the box is closed the sections interlock and form,in eifect, a single stick. A similar arrangementis shown in Fig. 2, where the box is closed at the sides, not by plugs j, as in Fig. 4, but by strips 70, which meet without overlapping. In this box, instead of a hinge such as shown at a in the other figures, I employ a sectional stick, Z, similar to the front sections in Figs. 2 and 4, except that the middle section islonger. The middle section is glued to the top A and the end sections to the lower part, B. They are then put together, end to end, so as to be in line, and are united by pins (indicated by dotted lines) extending axially through the end sections into the middle section. These pins constitute the pivot on which the two parts A and B turn.

These boxes are particularly adapted for the pencil trade. They are .strong, easily made and put together, and cost little, and they are much more presentable in appearance than the ordinary pencil-box now in the market.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A box composed of two hinged parts, provided in their adjacent overlapping portions, the one with rubber and pin 0 f and the other with recess 9, said parts being constructed and arranged for operation as shown and described.

2. The stick or rib i, in combination with the two hinged parts of the box and the fastening device of 9, said parts being constructed and arranged for operation as shown and described.

I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of February, 1881.

HENRY A. SOHADOl/VSKY. 

